"We
are neural beings," states Berkeley cognitive scientist George Lakoff.
"Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies. What our bodies
are like and how they function in the world thus structures the very
concepts we can use to think. We cannot think just anything - only what
our embodied brains permit."

GEORGE
LAKOFF, currently a fellow at The Rockridge Institute, has been Professor
of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley since 1972,
where he is on the faculty of the Institute of Cognitive Studies and
a Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute. He has been a member of
the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, President of the
International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and a member of the
Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Metaphors
We Live By (with Mark Johnson); Women, Fire and Dangerous Things:
What Categories Reveal About the Mind; More Than Cool Reason: A Field
Guide to Poetic Metaphor (with Mark Turner); Moral Politics,
an application of cognitive science to the study of the conceptual systems
of liberals and conservatives; Philosophy in the Flesh (with
Mark Johnson); Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind
Creates Mathematics (with Rafael Nunez).